{"id":162672,"date":"2026-02-03T23:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162672\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T23:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:33:10","slug":"hip-hop-journalist-kevin-powell-to-speak-at-feb-4-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162672\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip-Hop Journalist Kevin Powell to Speak at Feb. 4 Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kevin-powell-800x500-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-story-main-image size-story-main-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kevin Powell speaks into a microphone\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>Kevin Powell, hip-hop journalist\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Cal State Fullerton\u2019s African American Studies and the Institute of Black Intellectual Innovation invite the campus community to join a conversation with hip-hop journalist Kevin Powell.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place Feb. 4 from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. in Pollak Library, Room 634.<\/p>\n<p>Powell is a Grammy-nominated poet and one of the most celebrated political, cultural, literary and hip-hop voices in America. He is the author of 16 books, including\u202f\u201dGrocery Shopping With My Mother,\u201d a new collection of poetry, and \u201cThe Education of Kevin\u00a0Powell: A Boy\u2019s Journey Into Manhood,\u201d his critically acclaimed autobiography\u202fthat is being adapted for the screen. His documentary, \u201cWhen We Free the World,\u201d explores concepts of manhood.\u00a0Powell is currently working on a biography of Tupac Shakur.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Kevin Powell, hip-hop journalist &#13; &#13; Cal State Fullerton\u2019s African American Studies and the Institute&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-162672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}